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312 A cross of light leads Constantine to victory

AT THE END of October AD 312, the streets of Rome seethed with discontent. “The customary rains and showers of the winter season ceased to fall in their wonted abundance upon the earth and an unexpected famine made its appearance, and in addition to this a pestilence,” wrote the Christian chronicler Eusebius. “Some people, wasted away like ghosts and at the very point of death, stumbled and tottered here and there, and too weak to stand fell down in the middle of the streets.” As was traditional, many people blamed the emperor, Maxentius – in this age of intense political […]

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